Surreal moment in the Commons as Vaz congratulates Bercow on his and Sally’s anniversary, before asking if had a “party” last night. Remember, the Speaker and Vaz are close…
“Now we’ve just got to beat Spurs on Sunday”
– Commons mic picks up Speaker Bercow and Jeremy Corbyn talking football after #PMQs pic.twitter.com/pCOAzevwFY
— Esther Webber (@estwebber) November 2, 2016
The Speaker probably sniffing around for another freebie.
Not the first time Skinner has used that particular phrase to describe the PM. This time he was named by the Speaker for refusing to withdraw…
He knew the camera was on him, too. Shameless.
The Speaker’s bad temper continued at PMQs, where he bizarrely banned Tory MP Chris Philp from asking, entirely reasonably, if green taxes have contributed to the steel industry crisis. Curiously, Bercow ruled this had “nothing to do with government policy” and prevented the PM from answering:
Except, it demonstrably does. The Telegraph, Mail and even the Wall Street Journal have all run articles this week about how green taxes have impacted on the steel industry. The PM was unimpressed. That’s two weeks in a row that Cameron been prevented from landing a blow by the Speaker…
You might have thought the Business Secretary’s statement on steel job losses is an appropriate use of Commons time. Not so, according to John Bercow, who says Sajid Javid went on for too long. Here is the extraordinary dressing down:
Earlier Bercow swiped at the Chinese by noting “the Indian PM is representative of a great democracy”. What’s bitten him today?
